New Monthly Pick Book Club Featuring: Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

Join us for a NEW Book Club featuring one of our Monthly Picks: Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes 

Join us in the café at 7:00pm on May 20th to discuss our new May Monthly Pick for Mystery & Thriller Murder Your Employer! 

We've all dreamed of exacting revenge on our mortal enemies — whether it be your boss, neighbor, or that one guy who always cuts you in line at the deli — and this is a world where dreams become reality. Perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club and Anthony Horowitz.

A bit about the book...

Introducing the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White-Lotus style resort dedicated to the art of murder.

Overview: Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this “Poison Ivy League” college—its location unknown to even those who study there—is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate...and where one’s mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live.

Prepare for an education you’ll never forget. A “fiendishly funny” (Booklist) mix of witty wordplay, breathtaking twists and genuine intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be murderers you’ll ever read.

“How has no one thought of this before? Murders set at an imaginary academy set up to train murderers . . . Holmes delights in wordplay that includes puns, literary terms, cultural references, and twists. . . . As Holmes takes hairpin turns from irony back to sincerity for his three McMasters pupils, his zany storytelling will delight fans of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett, all Sherlock Holmes stories, and even those who love tales of arcane and Gothic institutions.” —Bethanne Patrick, NPR